Sunday, January 1, 2012

Doing The Remarkable

When it comes to meeting and conquering the negativity in your life, here is a key question: what can you do, starting today, that will make a difference?

What can you do during economic chaos? What can you do when everything has gone wrong? What can you do when you've run out of money, when you don't feel well and it's all gone sour? What can you do?

Let me give you the broad answer first. You can do the most remarkable things, no matter what happens. People can do incredible things, unbelievable things, despite the most impossible or disastrous circumstances.

Here is why humans can do remarkable things: because they are remarkable. Humans are different than any other creation. When a dog starts with weeds, he winds up with weeds. And the reason is because he's a dog. But that's not true with human beings. Humans can turn weeds into gardens.

Humans can turn nothing into something, pennies into fortune, and disaster into success. And the reason they can do such remarkable things is because they are remarkable. Try reaching down inside of yourself; you'll come up with some more of those remarkable human gifts. They're there, waiting to be discovered and employed.

With those gifts, you can change anything for yourself that you wish to change. And I challenge you to do that because you can change. If you don't like how something is going for you, change it. If something isn't enough, change it. If something doesn't suit you; change it. If something doesn't please you, change it. You don't ever have to be the same after today. If you don't like your present address, change it -- you're not a tree!

If there is one thing to get excited about, it's your ability to make yourself do the necessary things, to get a desired result, to turn the negative into success. That's true excitement.

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Book Lists for Leaders

THE PURPOSE DRIVEN LIFE by Rick Warren THE FIVE TEMPTATIONS OF A CEO by Patrick Lencioni THE FIVE DYSFUNCTIONS OF A TEAM by Patrick Lencioni THE FOUR OBSESSIONS OF AN EXTRAORDINARY ADMINISTRATOR by Patrick Lencioni THE THREE SIGNS OF A MISERABLE JOB by Patrick Lencioni >GETTING THINGS DONE by David Allen >WOODEN, A LIFETIME OF OBSERVATIONS AND REFLECTIONS ON AND OFF THE COURT >COACH WOODEN ONE ON ONE by John Wooden and Jay Carty >WOODEN ON LEADERSHIP***** >THE ESSENTIAL WOODEN***** >YOU HAVEN’T TAUGHT UNTIL THEY HAVE LEARNED…John Wooden’s Teaching Principles & Practices by Swen Nater & Ronald Gallimore***** INCH AND MILES by Coach Wooden for young children…..Pyramid of Success >TRAINING SOCCER CHAMPIONS by Anson Dorrance >THE MAN WATCHING by Tim Crothers (Four years with Anson Dorrance) >QUIET STRENGTH by Tony Dungy THE ART OF WAR by Sun Tzu……Edited by Samuel Griffith (Bob Knight Favorite) >EXECUTION by Larry Bossidy and Ram Charan THE LEADERSHIP SECRETS OF BILLY GRAHAM by Myra and Shelley LETTERS BY A MODERN MYSTIC by Frank C. Laubach STARTING YOUR DAY RIGHT, Devotions for Each Morning of the Year by Joyce Meyer PRAYER, A HOLY OCCUPATION by Oswald Chambers THE PRACTICE OF THE PRESENCE OF GOD by brother Lawrence MY UTMOST FOR HIS HIGHEST JOURNAL by Oswald Chambers***** GOD CALLING JOURNAL edited by A. J. Russell……….Geared to women readers THE SHACK by William P. Young…Gets to your inner being…Order @ www.theshackbook.com THE JOURNEY by Billy Graham >WHEN THE GAME IS OVER IT ALL GOES BACK IN THE BOX by John Ortberg >THE LAST LECTURE by Randy Pausch…...He says it all in his last lecture >GRACE FOR THE MOMENT DAILY BIBLE by Max Lucado (Great study Bible) >GOOD TO GREAT by Jim Collins BLEACHERS by John Grisham MAKE THE BIG TIME WHERE YOU ARE by Frosty Westering (253/531-3672) FIRST THINGS FIRST by Covey, Merrill, and Merrill WHAT THEY DON’T TEACH YOU AT THE HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL by Mark McCormack TUESDAYS WITH MORRIE by Mitch Albom >THE JESUS STYLE by Gayle Dean Erwin (Great on Team Work and Servant Leadership) THE ART OF LIVING by Wilferd Peterson LEADERSHIP PRAYERS by Richard Kriegbaum THE ONLY NECESSARY THING....Living A Prayerful Life by Henri Nouwen, Edited by Wendy Wilson Greer The Crossroad Publishing Company 1001 MOTIVATION MESSAGES AND QUOTES FOR ATHLETES AND COACHES By Bruce Brown, Order at www.coacheschoiceweb.com >THE SERVANT....A Simple Story About The True Essence of Leadership by James C. Hunter (A Coach John Wooden favorite) THE ART OF LIVING…The Classic Manual on Virtue, Happiness, and Effectiveness by Epictetus